Before you can work with collectors you must have an IA
Collector connection configured. Contact your system administrator
for details of the collector connections that you want to use.
About this task
The CICS® IA plug-in Collector
places details about interactions between CICS programs and resources in a set of DB2® tables. To work with the collectors,
you must set up a collector connection.
Procedure
- On the workbench menu, click Window > Manage
Connections. The Host Connections view is displayed.
If your connections have already been configured, you
see the connections under the categories in the view. If not, the
categories are empty. The following example screen shows the Host
Connections view with one connection in each category of IA Collector
and Interdependency Analyzer. Each connection is associated with a
credential. The credential is shown in brackets after the connection
name.
- If the connection is already defined, as in the screen
image above, click on the connection name and click Connect.
- To create a new connection, select the CICS IA Collector connection type and click Add. The new connection dialog opens.
- Enter the name you want to use for this connection.
- Enter the Host name and port number.
- If this connection is secured using the SSL protocol, check Secure
connection (TLS/SSL)
- To start the connection now, click Save and
Connect. Alternatively, click Save and Close to
save the connection details without connecting at this time. To start
the connection at a later time, select the connection from the list
in the Host Connections view and click Connect
- Optional: You can now choose to associate a
credential with the connection. Right-click the connection name and
hover over Set Credentials to show the credentials
available. Click the credential
that you want to use for the connection. See Defining connection credentials for more information. If you do not associate a credential with the connection
at this time, you will be prompted for the credential when you start
the connection.
What to do next
You can export your connections to save them for backup purposes
or to share with other users. In the toolbar of the
Connections view,
click
Export Connections to File and enter
a path and file name. The default file type is
pref.
You can import connections
from another user by clicking
Load Connections from File
or URL in the toolbar of the
Connections view.